The 18th Meredith Music Festival had a bit of everything - but most of all, it had rain.

Rare are the music festivals held on farms in drought-stricken Victoria during December who report people suffering from hypothermia; yet this was the case as 15,000 or so people gathered for the annual weekend of live music thundering from a solitary stage at the base of a hill known as the 'Supernatural Ampitheatre'.

Over a dozen were treated and two people were hospitalised for hypothermia over an otherwise incident-free weekend, where crowds endured three days of rain (including Victoria's wettest day for the entire year) to see music from old-time favourites, hotly hyped newcomers as well as lesser known artists.

The Meredith Music Festival has come a long way from an extended party with the bands on the back of a truck in 1990 - this year bands from Melbourne, interstate, and overseas came along to deliver live music almost around the clock from 6pm Friday until 4pm Sunday, delivering an eclectic array of styles from rock to pop, hardcore punk, electro, soul, rap and the traditional set of Peruvian-flavoured latin funk.

Highlights included a blistering set from Californian hardcore punks The Bronx; a powerful soul set from Australian artist Dan Sultan and his 9 piece band; wild gypsy freak-rock from ManMan and tough keyboard pounding swamp rock from Louisville duo the Black Mountain Heavies.